Guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Has anyone come across StoneCAD from Cultured Stone - www.culturedstone.com StoneCAD generates hatch patterns of their products and textures etc too I think. I downloaded and installed it - the hatches can be produced in lots of cad formats and mcds are included Quote Link to comment
RonMan Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Not sure of the question, but I have used them. They can be real memory hogs, but they do work. The image textures are pretty good to. I use them more often. Ron Quote Link to comment
panthony Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 I brought the hatch into VW and had to go in and really clean up the lines in the hatch editor to make them use less memory. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted February 11, 2007 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 11, 2007 The latest version of StoneCAD has resources already converted to VectorWorks format (hatches as well as RenderWorks textures.) Quote Link to comment
Don@Black Dog Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Where is the best place to install it to, Program Files in it's own directory or into the VW folder, so textures get into the library? Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I think just install it as you would any other program. It appears you can direct the things you want into any folder - Select the Hatch Target Tab to the left, Manual Select at the top, Add New Application and direct the software to the folder of your choice it seems. Read the manual maybe. I only found it because I needed some Stone Hatches and that is all I have used it for - just thought it may be handy for others!! Quote Link to comment
Kevin Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Robert, Are those VW resources part of the StoneCad download? I down loaded Version 5, but do not see those VW specific resources. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted February 13, 2007 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 13, 2007 Kevin, the VectorWorks hatches are available in StoneCAD as MCD files. You don't say if you are on a Mac or a PC, I'm on a Mac and find the StoneCAD application (which is a Macromedia Director app) somewhat confusing (as it doesn't follow strict Mac-style UI guidelines). However, you can use it to preview the hatches that you want and try to install them. If you are not successful in getting StoneCAD to install your hatches in your default hatches folder, you can navigate to the StoneCad/Application/resources/assets/hatch/vectorworks/ folder and find all the MCD files there, each with a hatch. HTH Quote Link to comment
Kevin Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Thanks to you Robert, I found them. You are right. That is one odd file structure. I found the files located in the Hatch Folder. Each file contains a mixture of hatches, images, and textures. Like you, I am on a Mac. Quote Link to comment
Abacus Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Darrell, Thanks for the tip. StoneCAD has one seriously screwed up interface but the hatches it produced are great. Quote Link to comment
propstuff Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Has anyone here actually used these in a project? There are some nice ones there, but do they bog down the drawings if they're used say, as paving patterns in meandering paths? (IE complex polylines) cheers Quote Link to comment
Abacus Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Nicholas, I have used the ledgestone hatch on one project and did not notice any speed decrease after importing and using it. I did a test on a new document and the ledgestone hatch added 12 KB. Simple hatches add about 4 KB. Very acceptable for the hatch quality and cost. Quote Link to comment
RonMan Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Nicholas, I have used them a great deal. My experience is that the hatches use a lot of memory and can really slow down a drawing. We used them on a new construction project and on my partner's G5 it took forever just to change zoom levels. We liked the results so much we put up with it, but I had to turn off the hatches until the end. He has 3 Gb of memory on his box. The textures work fine with little or no pain (except when rendering, but that is normal). RonMan Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 , that is one badly written ugly application! Great hatch & texture resource though. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 I had a look at one of the hatches - 440 levels Quote Link to comment
propstuff Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Thanks for the replies. Yes: LOTS of levels! That's why I was wondering. Anyhow, we'll give it a go. Cheers, N. Quote Link to comment
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